Stella Melbye-Konan, 2024
Founded in 2020, Melbye-Konan | Contemporary Art & Advisory is a Hamburg-based contemporary art platform dedicated to the representation of artists, curatorial projects, exhibitions, and art advisory. Situated at the intersection of artistic practice, collecting, and cultural dialogue, Melbye-Konan develops long-term collaborations with artists, collectors, institutions, and cultural partners. Through its international programme, the gallery supports both established and emerging voices while fostering meaningful encounters between artworks, audiences, and collections. The Hamburg space serves as a private by-appointment viewing environment and advisory office, offering a focused setting for collectors, institutions, and invited guests.
The programme is committed to long-term collaborations with artists and focuses on artistic positions that engage with questions of history, identity, memory, materiality, and the social conditions shaping contemporary culture, with particular attention to perspectives from Africa, Europe, and the global diaspora.
Melbye-Konan collaborates with museums, private collections, foundations, and cultural institutions on exhibitions, acquisitions, and long-term projects. Artists represented by Melbye-Konan have exhibited at internationally recognized institutions and biennials, including the Venice Biennale, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Haus der Kunst, Kunstverein Jesteburg, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Institut français, and the Mohammed VI Museum.
Artists represented by Melbye-Konan include: Yannick Ackah, Nathalie David, François Martinache, Stellar Meris, Ngoye, Araks Sahakyan, Karolin Schwab, Marie de Villepin, and Yeanzi.
Founded by Stella Melbye-Konan, an art historian, curator, and advisor, Melbye-Konan is shaped by her expertise across museum practice, curatorial research, and the international art market. She has worked with the Centre Pompidou and the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, as well as on cultural projects with the architect Dominique Perrault. She studied Art History and Communication in Hamburg and completed postgraduate studies in Museum Management at the École du Louvre in Paris.